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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Stevenson went to Mr Henderson's School in India Street, Edinburgh, but he wasn't a very healthful child so he stayed home and returned to the school in October 1859. He was taught by private teachers. After his health improved and went to another school. He wasn't dedicated on his studies but later on he wrote many succesful novels!

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More About Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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More About Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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He was born in Edinburgh  on 13th of November 1850. During his life he has been a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
He died in 1894 in Samoa

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First edition
Author  | Robert Louis Stevenson
Country  | United Kingdom
Language  | English
Genre  | Adventure Fiction
Young Adult Literature

Publication date

| 14 Nov 1883
(serialized 1881-82)

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By Robert Louis Stevenson

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Jim Hawkins | The boy who finds the treasure maps.
Billy Bones | He was the possessor of the map and was an ex-buddy of Captain Flint.
Squire John Trelawney | A skilled marksman, he's a foolish man and hires the crew on Long John Silver.
Dr. David Livesey | He's a doctor and he has been a former soldier and a magistrate.
Captain Alexander Smollett | He's a loyal captain of the Hispaniola. He doesn't trust Silver from the beginning.
Long John Silver | Flint's quartermaster

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The Narrator is Jim Hawkins.

The novel opens in a seaside village near Bristol on the west coast of England in the mid of 17th century.

For the rest of the story... Listen to me!

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Jim lives with his family at the Admiral Benbow Inn, near Bristol.
One day a stranger arrives.
He says he is staying for a while until his money runs out.
One day another stranger arrives and asks Jim if he has seen the Captain and waits for him there.
When the Captain comes back he sees the man who's waiting him and is in shock! They start to yell and the Captain tries to kill the stranger but fails. When the Captain comes back he feels sick and falls on the floor

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Captain Bones is ill for days and tells Jim he's scared of the black spot. Jim asks what the black spot is and Bones replies that it means it's the end, that you're dead.
Some days later a blind man comes to the inn and asks Jim for help, but he takes Jim as a hostage and tells him to bring him to the Captain. They go inside and Bones is scared as hell! Bones dies because of the black spot.
Jim sees Bones and goes with him mother to take the sea chest that Bones had. He takes the sea chest and runs away with the mother. The Blind Man comes back but the sea chest isn't there anymore. He dies because horses are evil.

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The ship sails away and we're in the middle of the ship. The name of the ship Captain's Smollett.
After a day of sailing Jim hears that Long John Silver wants to kill everybody on the ship and wants to take the treasure. Jim is scared and runs to tell the others what he has just heard. The others say to Jim to follow 'em and to tell 'em what he sees.

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Jim asks help the riders for help to take him to Dr. Livesey.
When Jim comes, Dr. Livesey is talking to a friend of his whose name is Squire Trelawney.
Jim tells 'em his story and opens the sea chest and find a treasure map. It is worth a fortune! Squire Trelawney says he is going to charter a ship for the adventure.
There's a man friend of Trelawney who helped Trelawney to choose the crew. But they still don't know that they did a bad decision on choosing Silver

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When Jim is on the island, starts to stalker Silver.
After a while he sees Silver stabbing a man! Jim was terrified and started to run away!

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Jim is running away, to the centre of the island and sees a figure. The figure is a man whose name is Ben Gunn, he tells Jim that he is abandoned there by Flint and Silver three years before. Ben says that he'll help Jim if he helps him

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While Jim's on the island, the others are deciding what to do. They decide to abandon the ship and to take the sea chest with them and food and guns.

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Silver makes an Offer, but Smollett refuses.

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Silver makes an Offer, but Smollett refuses.

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Silver comes to the stockade where Jim and friends are and says that if Smollett gives 'em the map, they'd leave Jim and everyone alone. But Smollett refuses. Silver in revenge attacks them.

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Jim has a plan. He wants to go to the Hispaniola (the ship) and to cut the ship's anchor so she'd drift away. When he's on the ship he falls asleep. The next morning he explores the ship and sees two dead men... but one of 'em is still alive!

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The hurt pirates tells Jim that if he helps him he'd teach him how to govern the ship. After a while he is able to drive the ship. But the pirate attacks him but Jim in defense shoots him and kills him

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After Jim goes back to the island, he goes back to the stockade but finds out that it is taken by the pirates and Jim is Silver's prisoner. JIm finds out that Silver has the map. The next morning Dr. Livesey comes and finds out that Jim is a prisoner of the pirates and tells him all the news.

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Jim is worried.
Silver and the pirates go to the place where the treasure is supposed to be. They start to dig but there's nothing. The pirates feel betrayed and attack Silver and Jim, but they are saved by Livesey and the others.

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The pirates are all dead. They take the treasure from Ben Gunn's cave. Jim an Silver go back to the ship with the others.
They arrive at the port of San Cristobal. Silver escapes and takes half of the treasure.
The Hispaniola is back to England with the treasure. Jim and his friends are rich!
Jim finishes is studies.